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Murder of an insurance company CEO in Manhattan: DNA recovered from shooter’s water bottle
For a third day, the manhunt by New York City police officers continues for the perpetrator of the murder of the CEO of major insurance company UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson.
Although so far the perpetrator has not been identified, the city’s mayor Eric Adams said the investigation is “on the right track.”
Boba Tea: The New Instagram Frenzy – Meet the Family Behind Its Creation
Bubble tea, or as it is more commonly known boba tea, has had an impressive journey from the early 1980s to its current global success. Once seen as an innovative idea, the beverage has now become a symbol of modern coffee and tea culture, bridging cultures and tastes from all corners of the world.
Gaza boycotts hurt McDonald's sales
A banner year came to a bumpy end for McDonald's, which lost sales in many markets due to the war in Gaza.
Global same-store sales - or sales at restaurants open at least a year - rose 3.4 percent in the October-December period, well below the 4.7 percent increase Wall Street was expecting.
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Armed attack targets Starbucks store in Adana amid boycott calls
A store of coffee giant Starbucks in the southern province of Adana has been targeted in an armed attack, in the latest incident on the global chain following mounting boycott calls over its support to Israel amid the Gaza war.
Multinational companies vow to hire thousands of refugees in Europe
Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott and Hilton pledged yesterday to hire more than 13,000 refugees, including Ukrainian women who have fled the war with Russia, over the next three years in Europe.
Schultz defends Starbucks’ tough union stance
Longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz defended the coffee chain's confrontational approach to unionization on March 29, while insisting it had not violated U.S. labor law in countering the campaign.
The hearing, which got contentious at some points, was convened by progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, focusing on what the independent from Vermont called "illegal union busting."
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Cypriot fund to buy local Starbucks
ECM Partners, a Cypriot-owned investment fund, is putting the finishing touches to a deal to acquire Starbucks in Greece and Cyprus.
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Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store
Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on June 18, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections.
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To use rather than collect, the second coming of NFTs
NFTs have been called everything from fads to outright scams, but early adopters see a future for them as uniquely useful tools for business, health and the arts that goes beyond mere digital collecting.
Union says Starbucks fired organizing committee at US store
A union representing Starbucks employees on Tuesday accused the coffee chain of firing workers attempting to organize in the US state of Tennessee.
Starbucks Workers United said employees comprising "almost the entire union organizing committee" at a store in Memphis were fired weeks after two Starbucks stores in New York became the first to formally organize.